Ernst Pelzer

Ernst Pelzer (1665-Summer 1706) was a general of Westphalia.

Biography
Pelzer was born in Cologne in 1665 and became a general of the Electorate of Westphalia. A good defender, he was able to defend Westphalia against the French invasion in the War of the Grand Alliance in the 1690s. Pelzer was besieged in the city of Cologne in 1706 by Felix Kaunitz's Austrian army, and he was killed in the assault.